About Lichtenstein Creative Media
Lichtenstein Creative Media is an award-winning, independent media production company located in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY. LCMedia has extensive multimedia production, distribution and educational/community outreach experience, particularly with regard to media and social justice/human rights issues. LCMedia is also the creator of groundbreaking educational and social marketing campaigns utilizing media and strategic communications.
Lichtenstein Creative Media is an award-winning, independent media production company located in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY. LCMedia has extensive multimedia production, distribution and educational/community outreach experience, particularly with regard to media and social justice/human rights issues. LCMedia is also the creator of groundbreaking educational and social marketing campaigns utilizing media and strategic communications.
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Bill Lichtenstein, founded LCMedia on July 4, 1990, as a former investigative producer for ABC News 20/20, World News Tonight and Nightline. Bill's work, and that of LCMedia, has been honored with more than 60 major journalism honors including: a Guggenheim Fellowship; George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting, TV and radio’s highest honor; a United Nations Media Award, six National Headliner Awards; four Gracie Awards from American Women in Radio and Television; and five Unity Awards in Media from Lincoln University of Missouri for coverage of minority issues.
LCMedia produced the highly-acclaimed documentary film, "West 47th Street," which follows three years in the life of four people with mental illness. At times hilarious and at other times tragic, "West 47th" Street was winner of "Best Documentary" at the Atlanta Film Festival and DC Independent Film Festival, and sold out theatres across the U.S. and internationally from Vancouver to Paris to Dublin to South Korea. The film aired on the PBS series P.O.V., and was called "must see" by Newsweek and "remarkable" by the Washington Post. It was accompanied by a 100-city educational outreach campaign with screenings held at such venues as Grand Rounds at Yale Medical School, the Carter Center, the Department of Homeless Services in California’s Santa Clara County where it was used to train outreach staff, and in New Mexico, where mental health workers screened it for Native Americans in psychiatric hospitals throughout the state.
LCMedia also created and produced "The Infinite Mind," public radio’s most honored and listened to health and science program. For over a decade, the series focused on the latest developments in mental health, the biology of human behavior, neuroscience, and access to care. "The Infinite Mind" aired in more than 250 markets across the U.S. including in such Top 10 cities as New York, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Detroit, and Boston, as well as on statewide public radio networks in Utah and West Virginia, among others, reaching more than one million listeners weekly.
LCMedia’s other productions include "If I Get Out Alive," narrated by Academy Award-winning actress and youth advocate Diane Keaton. The one-hour public radio documentary examines the conditions and brutality faced by juveniles in the adult prison system. The program won first prize in the National Headliner Awards, a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and several other honors. LCMedia and its founder, Bill Lichtenstein, created and produced the highly-acclaimed "Voices of an Illness" radio documentary series which has provided millions with an extraordinary window on living with serious mental illness since the series premiere in 1992. The programs on clinical depression, manic depression and schizophrenia, narrated by Rod Steiger, Patty Duke and Jason Robards, were called“remarkable,” by Time magazine.
LCMedia has also pioneered the use of 3-D virtual reality, in the on-line community Second Life, for public broadcasting, health, education, and other non-profit social uses. This includes the first live broadcasts from Second Life for "The Infinite Mind" with guests Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne Vega; a live event forthe U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Darfur featuring Mia Farrow; a press conference for Italian Minister of Infrastructure Antonio DiPietro; and the construction of a corporate site for Dell, Inc. featuring a virtual science and technology center, and a factory where visitors can build their own computers.
LCMedia has been working for two decades to develop and utilize state-of-the-art communications, media and social marketing strategies to effectuate measurable changes in public attitudes, behaviors and policy with regard to mental health and related medical, social and cultural issues. LCMedia has worked with a variety of non-profit and governmental organizations on the design and implementation of mental health strategic communications and social marketing campaigns, including the United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the National Institutes of Health, Carter Center, New York State Office of Mental Health, and New York Presbyterian Hospital.
This includes the nation's first mental health anti-stigma campaign targeting a single city, created under contract with New York City. LCMedia also partnered with the American Psychological Association on the first primary research into who was recovering from trauma, and who was not, following the September 11th attacks. LCMedia was part of the team that launched the first medically validated on-line mental health screener for depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD and anxiety, called "a revolution in mental health testing," by Diane Sawyer on ABC"s World News Tonight.
LCMedia produced the highly-acclaimed documentary film, "West 47th Street," which follows three years in the life of four people with mental illness. At times hilarious and at other times tragic, "West 47th" Street was winner of "Best Documentary" at the Atlanta Film Festival and DC Independent Film Festival, and sold out theatres across the U.S. and internationally from Vancouver to Paris to Dublin to South Korea. The film aired on the PBS series P.O.V., and was called "must see" by Newsweek and "remarkable" by the Washington Post. It was accompanied by a 100-city educational outreach campaign with screenings held at such venues as Grand Rounds at Yale Medical School, the Carter Center, the Department of Homeless Services in California’s Santa Clara County where it was used to train outreach staff, and in New Mexico, where mental health workers screened it for Native Americans in psychiatric hospitals throughout the state.
LCMedia also created and produced "The Infinite Mind," public radio’s most honored and listened to health and science program. For over a decade, the series focused on the latest developments in mental health, the biology of human behavior, neuroscience, and access to care. "The Infinite Mind" aired in more than 250 markets across the U.S. including in such Top 10 cities as New York, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Detroit, and Boston, as well as on statewide public radio networks in Utah and West Virginia, among others, reaching more than one million listeners weekly.
LCMedia’s other productions include "If I Get Out Alive," narrated by Academy Award-winning actress and youth advocate Diane Keaton. The one-hour public radio documentary examines the conditions and brutality faced by juveniles in the adult prison system. The program won first prize in the National Headliner Awards, a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and several other honors. LCMedia and its founder, Bill Lichtenstein, created and produced the highly-acclaimed "Voices of an Illness" radio documentary series which has provided millions with an extraordinary window on living with serious mental illness since the series premiere in 1992. The programs on clinical depression, manic depression and schizophrenia, narrated by Rod Steiger, Patty Duke and Jason Robards, were called“remarkable,” by Time magazine.
LCMedia has also pioneered the use of 3-D virtual reality, in the on-line community Second Life, for public broadcasting, health, education, and other non-profit social uses. This includes the first live broadcasts from Second Life for "The Infinite Mind" with guests Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne Vega; a live event forthe U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Darfur featuring Mia Farrow; a press conference for Italian Minister of Infrastructure Antonio DiPietro; and the construction of a corporate site for Dell, Inc. featuring a virtual science and technology center, and a factory where visitors can build their own computers.
LCMedia has been working for two decades to develop and utilize state-of-the-art communications, media and social marketing strategies to effectuate measurable changes in public attitudes, behaviors and policy with regard to mental health and related medical, social and cultural issues. LCMedia has worked with a variety of non-profit and governmental organizations on the design and implementation of mental health strategic communications and social marketing campaigns, including the United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the National Institutes of Health, Carter Center, New York State Office of Mental Health, and New York Presbyterian Hospital.
This includes the nation's first mental health anti-stigma campaign targeting a single city, created under contract with New York City. LCMedia also partnered with the American Psychological Association on the first primary research into who was recovering from trauma, and who was not, following the September 11th attacks. LCMedia was part of the team that launched the first medically validated on-line mental health screener for depression, bipolar disorder, PTSD and anxiety, called "a revolution in mental health testing," by Diane Sawyer on ABC"s World News Tonight.